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Rosa Lee Scott: Actress, Artist and Educator
The Child Drama Collection is the world's most comprehensive archival repository of manuscripts, ephemera, and educational materials related to the history of theatre for youth and drama in education....

ASU Library, School of Art collab celebrates 10 years with new student exhibition
“Time and Change” is the title for a new art exhibition on display from Nov. 11–27 at Noble Library on the Tempe campus showcasing the creative problem-solving by students using cartographic materials...

Author Valerie Lambert to deliver Labriola Center National Book Award lecture
The Labriola National American Indian Data Center at the ASU Library has announced that “Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs” by Valerie Lambert is the recipient of the center’s Nat...
Map of the Month: November 2023
In 1898, Cuba was in the midst of a bloody war for independence from Spain that had been raging for three years. American public opinion swayed dramatically towards support through the 1890s, especial...

Labriola Center Blog: October 2023 Highlights
Highlights from the Labriola Center October's events at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center oscillated around themes of Indigenous identity in academia, which includes the Office of Ind...

Makerspace student recognized at Hacks for Humanity event
The 2023 Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good event from Oct. 6-8 brought together undergraduates, high school students, professionals and community members from across the valley to innova...

Open Access Week 2023 next steps
For our Open Access Week 2023 series, we have covered a lot of ground on the benefits and challenges, context and opportunities around open research and scholarship. In the first post, we shared the d...
Map of the Month: October 2023
Salt River Valley, Arizona, 1934. Cartography by T.A. Hayden. In 1934, the Phoenix valley was mostly farmland thanks to the incredibly successful damming of the Salt River wi...

ASU honors Black Speculative Fiction Month with a multimedia exhibit at Hayden Library
What does the film “Black Panther” have in common with an exhibit that just opened at Arizona State University’s Hayden Library? Like the 2018 blockbuster, the multimedia exhibit focuses on the genre ...